bare

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Lacking the usual or appropriate covering or clothing; naked: a bare arm.
2. adj. Exposed to view; undisguised: bare fangs.
3. adj. Lacking the usual furnishings, equipment, or decoration: bare walls.
4. adj. Having no addition, adornment, or qualification: the bare facts. See Synonyms at empty.
5. adj. Just sufficient; mere: the bare necessities.
6. adj. Obsolete Bareheaded.
7. v. To make bare; uncover or reveal: bared their heads; baring secrets.
8. v. To expose: The dog bared its teeth.
9. v. Archaic A past tense of bear¹.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Naked; without covering: as, bare arms; the trees are bare.
2. With the head uncovered. In numismatic descriptions, said of a head on a coin or medal when uncovered or devoid of any adornment, such as a diadem or laurel-wreath.
3. Open to view; unconcealed; undisguised.
4. Lacking in appropriate covering or equipment; unfurnished: as, bare walls.
5. Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish.
6. Threadless; napless.
7. Poor; destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished; unprovided with what is necessary or comfortable: absolutely or with of.
8. Empty; valueless; paltry; worthless.
9. Mere; scarcely or just sufficient: as, the bare necessaries of life; a bare subsistence.
10. Unaccompanied; without addition; simple.
11. Unadorned; without literary or artistic effect; bald; meager.
12. In beer-making, not completely covered by the bubbles formed in fermentation: said of the surface of beer.
13. Raw; excoriated.
14. Lean; spare.
15. The uncovered or unhidden surface; the body; the substance.
16. To make bare; uncover; divest of covering: as, to bare one's head or one's breast.
17. To disclose; make manifest; lay bare: as, to bare the secrets of the grave.
18. Old preterit of bear.
19. n. That part of a clapboard, roof-slate, or the like, which is exposed to the weather when the roof is complete, as distinguished from the lap.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
2. adj. Naked, uncovered.
3. adj. Having no supplies.
4. adj. Having no decoration.
5. adj. Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
6. adj. UK, slang, not comparable A lot or lots of.
7. adv. UK, slang Very; significantly.
8. adv. Barely.
9. adv. Without a condom
10. n. the surface, the (bare) skin
11. v. transitive To uncover; to reveal.
12. v. obsolete Simple past of bear.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked.
2. adj. With head uncovered; bareheaded.
3. adj. Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
4. adj. Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
5. adj. Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away.
6. adj. Threadbare; much worn.
7. adj. Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else.
8. n. rare Surface; body; substance.
9. n. (Arch.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
10. v. To strip off the covering of; to make bare.
11. Bore; the old preterit of bear, v.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. completely unclothed
2. adj. lacking embellishment or ornamentation
3. v. lay bare
4. adj. lacking in amplitude or quantity
5. adj. apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
6. v. make public
7. adj. lacking a surface finish such as paint
8. adj. not having a protective covering
9. adj. just barely adequate or within a lower limit
10. adj. providing no shelter or sustenance
11. v. lay bare
12. adj. having everything extraneous removed including contents
13. adj. lacking its natural or customary covering